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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA. SATURDAY HORNING. JULY 23, I»7
Does This Pay?
A private letter informs us that tomatoes are
shipped from points South of.Charlolte Harbor,
on the South-western coast of Florida, to New
York, at a cost for freight of only forty cents a
crate. In New York the tomatoes were sold
at from §7 50 to *10, per crate.
Now, does this pay ?
Southern Peaches.
The peach, whose origin is credited to Per
sia, is approaching its highest perfection in
the Southern portion of the Union—which is
in the same 1 ititude with its reputed home.
A recent number of Column's Rural World
mentions the fact that the lincst peaches of
fered in the St. Louis market this season, were
received from Overton (Rusk county in north
eastern) Texas. They were of thcjCrawford
variety, shipped in peck boxes, and were sold
at the rate of §7 00 per bushel. Of course
they T were shipped in attractive form, and in a
-.vav to protect them from injury on the way
tioai handling. Northern Louisiana and Ar
kansas are adapted to the production of equal
ly choice fruit.
Mention is made of the fact that Mr. J. C.
Foster, living a little 07er a mile from Sanford,
Orange county, Florida, exhibits specimer s of
peaches raised by bun, the largest of which
measured nine inches by eight and thrie-
fourths in circumference. They grew on seed
ling trees, the product of pits brought from
Tennessee. This locality is in about the same
latitude, but lower altitude, as Overton, Texas.
But quite a remarkable fruit has been pro
duced, with even more encouraging results,
by Mr. Samuel II. Humph, Marshallville,
Houston county, Georgia. He has been mar
keting in New York, a new peach called by
him the “Elberta,” originated from a sprout of
the old Chinese Cling. It is a magnificent
fruit in every respect—size, beauty, tlavor and
keeping qualities. Its productiveness would
seem to be unsurpassed. < >.i one bunch eigh
teen inches long, were a cluster of peaches
which, it was estimated, would weigh ten or
twelve pounds—individual specimens ten
ounces each. These peaches brought from 77
to •■?!) per bushel in New York. Mr. Itumph
has been in the fruit business twenty years—
has three hundred and six’y acres in fruit, and
is still adding to his area.
What better do our people want, or what
better could they have?
Alliances in North Carolina.
The Ra'eigh, N. C , Vrogr^ ssicc Farmer is in
receipt o[ a letter from Mr. M. T. Sealey, at
Laurinburg, Organizer of the Farmers’ Nation
al Alliance and Co-operative Union, for the
0th District of North Carolina, in which he in
form.! us that h- has organized a County Alli
ance for eacli of the counties, Richmond and
Robeson. lie has organized in those counties
twenty-live sub-AIiiances, with a membership
of onclhousand. The next step now, of course,
is to organize a Slate Alliance, as under the
constitution, three organized counties are em
powered to do this. The State Alliance has
authority- to select and commission organizers
for the Stale.
The farmers of North Carolina are wide
awake and looking to their interests. Besides
the Alliances they are organizing Clubs and
County Fairs. They will now take steps to
organize a State Alliance—whiffi Mississippi
is about to do.
We hear of nothing being done looking to
organizing Alliances in Georgia. It is time to
begin, not only in Georgia, but in every other
Southern State. It is only by organization,
and by agitating for their rights that they can
gain them.
Texas illustrates what can be done. The
Slate Alliance is going to build a ware-house
and establish various industries in the interest
of agriculture at Fort Worth, and at what are
known as Marble Falls, on the Colorado river,
they are going to found a city bearing that
name, and build cotton factories, and conduct
other businesses bearing upon successful hus
bandry. The Texas Alliance paid $100,000
for the property acquired at Marble Falls, and
will invest several times that amount at Fort
Worth.
Push on the column.
Hart’s Tardiff Orange.
The editor of the Florida Agriculturist writes
as follows regarding this valuable species of
orange:
Wuile on a trip down the river recently, we
s op,red at the above place to visit the grove of
Mr. E. K. Hart, whose “Hart’s Tardiff,” or
Hart’s late orange, is now attracting a good
deal of attention, being the only good orange
now to be had. He has nearly completed bis
shipments, and only a few were left, but
enough to satisfy us of their good qualities.
Some of the trees have a large number of ripe
fruit on now, while they have also a crop of
half grown oranges on them. The oranges
were bright, heavy and very delicious, and
certainly deserve all the praise accorded them.
Mr. Hart has some sixty different varieties
of oranges, systematically arranged and cata
logued, which is probably the largest collection
of any one in the nursery business. Besides
these be also lias a large collection of palms
and other beautiful plants which give bis home
a tropical appearance. He also gives the fol
lowing item regarding the late blossoming of
Hie Florida orange trees: The second bloom,
anticipated from the light first bloom, has be
gun to appear on the orangi trees in some pla
ces, and will probably go tar to make up the
deficiency in the first crop next winter.
Mule Raising on the Culf Coast.
Wr. William Sigerson, of Ocean Springs,
■Jackson county, Mississippi, writes to the
Southern Live stock Journal as follows, in re
gard to raising mules. His letter, giving bis
experience is valuable, as it makes known the
fact that mules can be cheaply and success
fully raistil where it was not thought possible,
and on a food product not heretofore used.
Mr. Sigerson says that he is satisfied from per
sonal observation that mules can be raised
more cheaply in Mississippi than in Indiana.
He proposes to use medium-siztd jacks and
broncho mares, and asserts that a well-grown
mule at three years will not cost more than
$30. Honduras rice, cut while in the nnlk,
will be cured for hay, and lespedeza striata,
which flourishes in his locality, for pasture.
Mr. Sigerson reports lands in his vicinity ap
preciating in value and Northern capitalists
flocking in.
More About Crapes in Florida.
A Delaware grape vine on Mrs. O. Kenne
dy’s place, near Sorrento, in Orange county,
seems to demonstrate the practicability of
grape-growing in Florida. The vine was
grafted on a wild stock in February, 1380. It
is trained upon a flat trellis or arbor. It now
bas three main canes, each some thirty-five
feet in length, besides numerous lateral canes.
It holds upwards of one thousand bunches of
fruit. The bunches are perfect even to the
tips of the literals. It is estimated that the
crop upon this single vine will exceed one hun
dred and fifty pounds in weight.
Cood Show for Wool.
Milton, Santa Rosa county, Fla., has shipped
over 10,000 pounds of wool this season.
Crangc Lecturer in Louisiana.
James M. Lipscomb, depty lecturer of the
National Grange, will lecture in Louisiana from
August 30th to September 1st. The pro
gramme will be published for the benefit of all
concerned.
The dust bath will go far toward keeping
your fowls in good condition, ft is to them
what water is to man. Throw a bucket full of
sifted coal ashes, and see how ihey revel in it.
It will clean the feathers and help to kill the
vermin.
Ventilation and Fumigation.
Are the poultry houses kept clean as the
warm weather sets in? Are ihey well venti
lated through the day and occasionally fumi
gated with sulphur? Is carlo ic acid i:s d
ireely about the roosts, coops anil sitting box
es? All these conditions are absolutely nec
essary for the prevention of diseases.
Transplanting Pine Trees.
An Iowa man has jmt shipped 300,000 young
pine trees from Black River Falls, Wis., to
be transplanted. He has made a shipment
nearly every year for the last thirty years, and
says that his experience is that these trees are
ihe most thrifty and hardy and make the best
wind breaks cf any trees that has yet been
tried on the Iowa prairies.
Sentiment Practically Verified.
Tile following item happily lends practical
force to the sentiment beautifully inculcated
by the cut on the first page of the Si ssy
South:
A robin has built a nest in the mouth of one
of the 1’arrot.t guns that ornament the burial
plat of the Maquoketa (la) G. A. R. post.
Paper-Making Material.
A contemporary states that a new use for
the tobacco plant bas been discovered. Its
stems and Yvaste, it is claimed, are equal to
linen rags in tile manufacture of paper.
And in recording the above, we would again
remind our thousands of readers that in the
dwarf or saw palmetto, the South has millions
of tons of superior paper-making material—
yet, now, it is worthless and almost s nuis
ance.
Mome-Mado Evaporatoy.
[Florida Agriculturist.]
Take a hogshead and cut a small door at the
bottom, through which to put fuel in the stove.
Also cut a round hole in the head of the hogs
head, directly across from the door, for the
stovepipe to go up through, aLo a square one
in front of this about sixteen or eighteen inches
square over which to set the oven. Now put
your hogshead up with a small stove in it; as
close to tile house as is safe, in case of lire, and
to save as much walking as possible. Carry
your stovepipe up through the round hole and
about a foot higher than the box or oven to be
put on the top of the hogshead. Fur the oven
t *ke a dry goods or tree box and knock out
one end, nail on some cleats for the fruit draw
ers and a door fur tlie front to fasten with a
button or strap. The drawers should be light
frames with slat or galvanized wire bottoms,
so that the air will have free circulation. Make
a few auger holes in the top of the box to give
ventilation and draught to the hot air. Set the
oven over'the hole in the head of the hogshead
and nail it down and your evaporator is com-
pieied with very lill’Aj outlay. J
Beaches 1 hat are too ripe or „oo small for
shipping can be dried iu this way, also guavas,
blackberries and numerous otlnr things. I)o
not let your fruit rot because yi u cannot afford
to buy an expensive evaporator, but put your
wits together and make one.
Japanese Fruits.
The cultivation of new varieties of fruit from
Japan is attraeiing considerable attention in
the Gulf States, ami it is more than probable
that many of them will succeed and become a
source of great profit in a latitude where the
temperature does not fail lower than 10 degrees
Fahrenheit. The Japan persimmon was not
injured in Louisiana during the severe cold of
1880, when the temperature fell lower than
was ever known before. The following de
scription of various Japanese fruits is con
densed from an essay delivered by Mrs. II. II.
Burger before the State Horticultural Society
at Riverside, Cal., and published in the Rural
Californian for June.
The persimmon is a rapid grower, very pro
lific bearei, highly ornamental in appearance,
forming with its glossy, dark-green leaves and
bright-colored fruit a pleasing sight. It grows
siraight, in pyramidal form—the wood is valu
able on accouLt of its excessive hardness—
gaining, as it grows older, a black hue like eb-
oLy. Given reliable rarietics of trees, and the
proper treatment of same, the persimmon tree
will, in a short time, be considered a necessary
adjunct to any orchard in those lati.udes
where frosts are not heavy enough to kill it.
It can stand in its own home 10 to 15 degrees
above zero.
Of the varieties most to be recommended for
table use, i. e., edible from the tree as soon as
ripe, are:
1. The lljakuuif—This fruit is very large,
roundish oblate; skin, vermilion red.
2. Kuro Kume—This fruit is medium, ob
late, somewhat f jur-sided; skin, bright red.
Dairdai-maru—This fruit is large, oblate,
four-sided; skin, yellowish orange; flesh, pale
yellow; juicy and sweet; bas very few seeds.
4. Zanji-maru—Fruit medium sized ami
round; skin red, marked with black at the end
when quite ripe. This fruit ripens about the
middle to the end of September, but is not
good to eat then. Left on ihe tree until after
exposure to frost it becomes sweet and juicy.
< >i,e of the best for table use,. It is sold abun
dantly in the. Tokio market during the scasor.
5. Yedo-ithi—This fruit is large, round’ h
and a little flattened at the stem; skin, red,
marked with black lines at the end; flesh, rusty
brown, with purplish black dots scattered
through it; very juicy and sweet, with a delic
ious rich flavor; ripens in the beginning of Oc
tober; one of the very best. This tree is ex
ceedingly hardy and vigorous and a prolific
bearer.
0. Yemon—The fruit is large, round, flat
tened, four sided. Skin, orange color. Flesh,
pale yellow, containing few seeds.
To make it delicious, the ripened astringent
fruit is packed in c!ean casks or tubs, covered
tightly with a lid, when in the course of ten to
fourteen days it is fit for use.
7. IlaeMia—This fruit is very large, pointed,
and a liu.„ uattened at the stem. Skin of a
rich, deep-red color, which shows black marks
at tile end when qu.te ripe. Few or no seeds.
It never becomes sweet naturally when ripe.
This is wrapped or laid between straw for a
time—it is a delicious fruit. It is also much
used for drying.
8. Tanc-nashi, or seedless, owing to its con-
ta ning no seeds or very rarely a very few. A
large fruit, oblong, pointed; skin a high yellow
ish color. It is only used for drying.
There are very many varieties of tbe Dic-
spyros Kaki, or fruit of tbe gods, under culti
vation in Japan, which, after thorough investi
gation, will be worthy of importation and prop
agation.
From Japan comes to us the mammoth or
giant chestnut, so called from its extraordina
ry size, it being not uncommon for twelve nuts
to weigh one pound. A further commendable
feature of this tree is its coming to bear when
exceedingly young—four or five years from the
seed, and two years from the graft.
The Loquat Japonica, also callrd Mespilns
Japonica, Eribotey a Japonica, or Japan Med
lar, is well known in Louisiana and Mississip
pi, and need not be described.
No peaches or pears, natives of Japan, are
fit to eat. The pear seedlings make excellent
stock for grafting on account of their vigorous
growth and their being peculiarly free from
disease.
Curious facta.
Good authority says that this country spends
$22 000,000 a year on patent medicines, and
that the number of these nostrums is more
than 5,000.
A boy at San Diego, Cal., is so electric that
by rubbing his hands over a box or book and
then waving his hand he can lift the object
from the table.
An old law is still extant in Virginia which
imposes a fine of fifty pounds of tobacco on a
man who absents himself from church for one
month without valid excuse.
Fruit growers in the strawberry belt of Illi
nois now furnish free chewing gum to the girls
who pick the berries, the object being to pre
serve the berries for future consumption.
A California paper states that a petrified
tooth of a shark waB picked out of a solid rock
at a depth of thirteen feet while digging a well
at Nipomo a short time ago. The tooth has re
tained its enamel and is highly polished.
A Texas negro was struck by lightening and
killed, in his pockets were found t wo horse
shoe magnets, two copper cents that had melt
ed together, p. nickle that was partly melted
and stuck to his watch, and the nickle rim
around his money purse was also melted.
Quick upon the heels of the repoit of the
death iu Brooklyn of Henry Chatfield, caused
by an orange seed lodging in an intestine,
comes a report of like nature from Norwich,
CL Tliere Miss Marion Elsie Blackman, a
teacher in the free academy, died a few days
ago from the same cause.
An old negro at Weldon, N. C., at a recent
lecture, said: “When 1 see a man going home
with a gallon of whisky and half a pound ol
meat, ilat’s te up nance lecture enough for me,
and I sees it every day. I know that ebtrj-
tliing in his homo is on the same scale—gallon
of misery to every half-pound of comfort”
The total number of persons killed by wild
animals anil venomous snakes in tbe ten di
visions of Bengal during the official year of
1885-83 was the highest iu the last live years,
and amounted to 11,823. As is usual, niue-
tenths of these deaths were caused by snakes.
But of 12,223 buffaloes, oxen, horses and po
nies destroyed in this manner only 311 tvere
killed by snakes. These annual returns do
not take account of sheep, goats, pigs and
monkeys, tliu destruction of which is very
large. The hyena is credited witli the destruc
tion of 773 head of cattle.
In the northern parts of Scotland and in the
Faroe Island «, extraordinary meetings of crows
are occasionally known to occur. They col ect
in great numbers, as if they hal been all sum
moned for the occasion; a few of the flock sit
witli drooping heads, and others seem as grave
as judges, while others again are exceedingly
active and noisy; in the course of about an
hour they disperse, and it is not uncommon,
after they have flown away, to find one or two
left dead on the spot. These meetings will
sometimes continue for a day or two before the
object, whatever it may bo, is completed.
Crows continue to arrive from all quarters dur
ing the session. As soon as they have all ar
rived a very general noise ensues, and shortly
after llie whole fall upon one ortwoindhHuals
and pul them to death; when this execution
has been performed they quietly disperse.
Oil is now ex racted from the seeds of grapes
in Italy. Young grapes yield most, and biack
kinds more than white.
Dr. Wood lias found that, with a bird’s ca
pacity for eating, a man could consume a
whole round of beef for dinner.
Tlie making of large lenses is a matter of
many difficulties, as may be inferred from tbe
fact that there have been nineteen failures to
cast the 33 inch glass for tbe great Lick tele
scope to be mounted in California.
In 1830 an adult black parrot from Mada
gascar was placed in the zo ological colli ction
of Regent’s Bark, London, where it remained-
fifty-four years. On its dead), a few days ago,
it was spoken of as the oldest inhabitant of the
garden.
An epidemic of consumption, in a village
near Weimar, Germany, has been traced to
the food supply. A flock of chickens had ac
cess to the matter expectorated by a consump
tive patient and became diseased, imparting
the affection to several persons eating their
flesh.
The language of crow3 has evidently received
considerable attention from Dr. C. C. Abbott,
as he avers that they have twenty-seven dis
tinct cries, calls or utterances, each readily
tintiuguishaliie from the others, and each hav
ing an unmistakable connection with a certain
class of actions.
A book-worm, of the papt r-eating sor , is a
creature seldom seen, despite its extensive and
most destructive borings among book treas
ures. It is described as a white, wax-like
grub, exactly resembling tbe little white jlnai-
gots of cheese. Three specimens were .ately
found in the act of tunnelling through a bundle
of papers in a London establishment.
It bas been discovered that heaps of unripe
rice soon undergo a process of fermentation
which is said to give the grain a delicious
flavor.
As the result of arboriculture, birds are mak
ing their appearance in Dakota that were never
seen there before. Quail, in particular, are
abundant.
A great many coins, English shillings, six
pences, coppers, and one Canadian piece were
found in Jumbo’s stomach by the gentleman
having charge of his remains.
Buenos Ayres has 3,300 street lamps, 82
miles of paved streets, 1,100 licensed hacks and
2,715 licensed express wagons, live street rail
way companies, with 03 miles of track, carry
ing 1,850,000 passengers monthly.
A Spanish doctor named F'oriuo has calcu
lated that, supposing 300 cigars are rolled in a
day, the movement of the fingers is repeated
274,500 times in a year of 200 working days.
This often causes professional cramp, so-called
cigar-roller’s cramp.
A twelve-year-old Dakota girl, taken up into
the air by a cyclone, carried out of sight and
brought easily down in a field a quarter of a
mile away, describes her sensation while in
transit as that of being rapid and constantly
pricked by thousands of needles. Since her
experience she has been affected similar to a
person with St. Vitus’ dance.
J2i0torical.
Grist mills arc an Irish invention and were
first run in Ireland in 214.
There were twelve kings of Macedon from
Bhilip, 330 B. C., to I’erseus, 17!) B. 0.
Bostellices were first established in Paris in
1432; in England, 1581; in Germany, Hill; in
Turkey, 1740.
The first bank ever established was located
at Venice, about 11.50, and was known as “The
Chamber of Loans.”
A Roman legion consisted of <*,000 men. di
vided into ten cohorts, and every cohort into
six centuries, with a vexilum, or standard,
guarded by teu men.
The admitted history of China began in 1122
B. C., and tbe Chinese claim twenty two dy
nasties of emperors, two of them, Hia and
Chang, before the age of Samuel.
The Portuguese monarchy commenced under
Alfonzo, in 1130; the kings of all Spain under
Charles, 1513; Aragon, Kamieres, in 1035; and
Castile, Ferdinand, in 1031.
Virgil, or Publius Virglius Maro, was born
70 B. C., near Mantua. At thirty-three he
wrote his Ecloimts, then his Georgies, and at
forty-five his JEneid. He died 10 B. C.
The making of woollen cloth was begun in
England in 1331; but its manufacture was not
known in France in 1343. How to dye and
dress it was not known in England until 1037.
Forks are a comparatively modern invention
and were first known in Italy toward tbe end
of the fifteenth century. They began to be
known in F'rance toward the end of tbe six
teenth century, and were introduced into Eng
land iu 11*08, just, fourteen years before the
Pilgrims landed at Ply mouth.
Bells were invented by Panlinus, bisbop of
Nola, in Caiupagr.ia, in or about the year 400.
They were first used in France in 550, in
Greece in 804, and in the churches of Europe
in 900. They first appeared in Switzerland io
1020; and the first tuneable set of bells known
in England were used in Croyland Abbey, Lin
colnshire, in 030.
* The Slough of Despondency”
in which you are Yvallowirig, on account of
some of those diseases peculiar to you, mad-
ame, and which have robbed you of the rosy
hue of health, and made life a burden to yon,
you can easily get out of. Dr. Pierce’s “Fav
orite Prescription” will free you from all such
troubles, aDd soon recall the rose-tint of hoalth
to your cheek, and the elasticity to your step.
It is a most perfect specific for all the weak
nesses and irregularities peculiar to your sex.
It cures ulceration, displacements, “internal
fever,” bearing down sensations, removes the
tendency to cancerous affections, and corrects
all unnatural discharges. By druggists.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
The Hamptons, July 17.—The Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage, I). I) , pastor at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, continues to enjoy the summer in
this pleasant place. His sermon for to-day
was on the text: “We Cannot Until all the
Flocks be (lathered Together, and Till they
Roll tbe Stone from the Wed's Mouth; Then
we Water the Sheep.”—Genesis xxix :8.
A scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully pasto
ral. A well of water of great value in that re
gion. The fields around about it white with
three ll >cks of sheep lying down waiting for
the watering. I hear their bleating coming on
the bright air, and the laughter of young men
and maidens indulging iu rustic repartee. I
look off anil I see other Hocks of sheep coining.
Meanwhile, Jacob, a stranger, on the interest
ing errand of looking for a wife, comes to the
wed. A beautful slierdi." r de8H comes to the
same well. I see her approaching, followed
by her father's flock of sheep. It was a mem
orable meeting. Jacob married ttat shep
herdess. The Bible account of it is: “Jacob
kissed Rachael, and lifted up bis voice and
wept.” It has always been a mystery to mo
what he found to cry about! But before that
scene occurred, Jacob accosts the shepherds
and asks them why they postpone the slaking
of the thirst of these sheep, and why they did
not immediately proceed to water them. The
shepherds reply to the effect: “We are all
good neighbors, and as a matter of courtesy
ive wait until all the shfitp of the neighborhood
come up. Besides that, this stone on the well's
mouth is s uuewhat heavy, and several of ua
take hold of it and push it aside, and then the
buckets and the troughs are filled, and the
sheep are satisfied. We cannot, u til all the
Hocks are gathered together, and lill they roll
the alone from the well’s mouib; then wo water
the sheep.”
Oh, this is a thirsty world! Ilot for the
head, and blistering for the feet, and parching
for the tongue. The world’s great want is a
cool, refreshing, satisfying draught. We wan
der around and we find the cistern empty.
Long and tedious drought bas dried up the
world’s fountains, but nearly nineteen centu
ries ago, a .Shepherd, with crook in the shape
of a cross, andfeit cut to tlie bleeding, ex
plored the desert passages of this world, and
one day came across a well a thousand feel
deep, bubbling and bright, ami opalescent,
and looked to tlie nonh, anil l lie south, and
the cast, and tlie west, and cried out with a
voice strong aud musical that rang through the
ages: “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye
to the waters 1”
No-v a great flock of sheep to-day gather
around tiiis Gospel well. There are a great
many thirsty souls. I wonder why the flocks
of all nations do not gather—wtiy so many
stay thirsty, and while I am wondering about
it, my text breaks forth in the explanation,
saying: “We cannot, until ail the flocks be
gathered together, and until they roll the stone
from Ihe well’s mouth; and then we water the
sleep.”
Is a herd of swine come to a well they an
grily jostle each other for tlie precedence; if a
drove of cattle come to a Wi ii, they hook each
other back from tbe water, bill when a iijck
of sheep come, though a hundred of them shall
be disappointed, they only express ii by sad
bleating; they come t igether peacefully. We
want a great inultiiude to come around tbe
Gospel well. I know there arc those who do
not like a crowd—they think a crowd is vul
gar. If they are oppressed for room in church
it makes them positively impatient and bellig
erent. We nave hid people permanently leave
our church because so many other people
come to it. Not so Yvith these Oriental shep
herds. They waited until ail the flocks were
gathered, and the more flocks that came the
better they liked it. And so wo ought to be
ai xi-ius Lbiit all J<u: pic rbould conic. V Go
out into the highway s and the hedges and com
pel them to come. Go to the rich and tell
them they are indigent without the Gospel of
Jesus. Go to the poor and tell them the afflu
ence there is iu Christ. Go to the blind and
tell theih of the touch that gives eternal illumi
nation. Go to tiie lame aud tell them of the
joy that will make the lame man leap like a
hart. Gather all the sheep off all the moun
tains. None so torn of the dogs, none so sick,
none so worried, none so dying, as to be omit
ted. Why not gather a great flock? All
Brooklyn in a flock; all New York in a flock;
all London in a flock; all tlie world in a flock.
This well of the Gospel is deep enough to put
out the burning thirst of the twelve hundred
million of the race. Do not let the church, by
a spirit of exclusiveness, keep the world out.
Let down all the bars, swing open all the
gates, scatter all the invitations: “Whosoever
will, let him come.” Come, white and black.
Come, red men of the forest. Come, Lapland
er, out of the snow. Come, Patagonian, out
of the heat. Come in furs. Come panting
under palm leaves. Come one. Come ail.
Come now. As at this well of Mesopotamia,
Jacob and Rachael were betrothed, so this
morning, at the well of salvation, Christ our
Shepherel will meet you coming up with your
long flocks of cares and anxities; and II.) will
stretch out His hand in pledge of his affection,
whilo all heavon will cry out: “Behold the
bridegroom ccuieLh, go you out to meet Him.”
Y'ou notice that this well of Mesopotamia
had a stone on it, which must be removed be
fore tbe sheep could be watered; and I find on
ibe well of salvation to-day impediments and
obstacles, which must be removed in order
that you ruay obtain tbe refreshment aud life
of this gospel. In your case the impediment
is pride of heart. You cannot bear to come to
so democratic a fountain; you do not want to
come with so many others. It is to you like
when you are dry, coming to a town pump, as
compared sitting in a parlor sipping out of a
chased chalice which has just been lifted from
a silver salver. Not so many publicans and
sinners. Y’ou want to get to heaven, but it
must be in a special car, v-ith your feet on a
Turki-h ottoman au i a band of music oil board
tbe train. Y’ou do not v-ant to be iu company
\fiih rustic Jacob and Racba.i, and to be drink
ing out cf the fountain where ten thousand
slu ep have been drinking before you. Y'ou
will have to remove tbe obstacle of pride, or
never find your way to the •viil. Y’ou will
have to come as we c one, villmg to take tbe
water of eternal life ia any w iv, and at any
h ind, and in any kind of pitcher, crying out:
“Oh, Lord Jesus, I am. flymg ol tbirsL Give
me the water of eternal life. orb-other iu trough
or goblet; give me the water of life; I care not
in Yvhat it comes to mo.” Away with all your
hindrances of pride from the well’s mouth.
Here is another man who is kept back from
this water of life by the stono of an obdurate
heart, which lies over the mouth of tiro well.
You have no more feeling upon this subject
than if God had yet to do you the first kind
ness, or you aad to do God tlie first wrong.
Seated ou his lap all these yeais. His ever
lasting arms sheltering you, where is your
gratitude? Where is y ear m oriing and eve
ning prayer? YVhere ure your cousecrated
lives? I say to you, as Daniel said to Belshaz
zar, “The God in whose hand t'uy bream is,
and ail thy way, thou has not glorified.” If
ycu treated anybody as badly as you have
treated God, you would have nadc hve Hun
dred apologies—yea, your whole life would
have beeu au apology. Three times a day you
have been seated at GoiV. table. Spring,sum
mer, autumn and winter he has appropriately
apparelled you. Your health from Him, your
companion from Him, yi ur children from Him,
your home from Him, all the bright surround
ings of your life from him. (> man, what dost
thou with that hard heart? Ganst thou not
feel one throb of gratitude toward the God that
made you, and tlie Christ who came to redeem
you, and the Holy Ghost who has all these
years beeu importuning you? If you could sit
down five micutes under the tree of a Sauor’s
martyrdom, aud feel iiis warm life trickling on
your'forebaad and chock, and hands, me thinks
you would get some appreciation of what you
owe to a crucified Jesus.
"Heart of stone, relent, relent,
Touched by Jesus’ cross subdued;
Sec Iiis body, mangled, rent,
Covered with a gore of blood.
Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
Crucified the eternal Son.”
Jacob with a good deal of tug and posh took
the stone from tbe weil’e month, so that the
flocks might be watered. And I would that
this morning my word, blessed of God, might
remove the hindrances to your gettiDg up to
the Gospel well. Yes, I take it for granted
that the work is done, and now, like Oriental
shepherds, I proceed to water the sheep.
Come, all ye thirsty! Y’ou have an unde
fined longing in your soul. You tried money-
making; that did not satisfy you. You tried
office under the government: that did not satis
fy you. You tried pictures and sculptures;
but works of art did not satisfy you. Y’ou are
as much discontented with this life as the cele
brated F’rench author who felt that he could
not any longer endure the misfortunes of the
world, and who said: “At four o’clock this af
ternoon, I shall put an end to my own exis
tence. Meanwhile, I must toil on up to that
time for the sustenance of my family.” And he
wrote on bis book until the clock struck four,
when he folded up his manuscript, and, by his
own hand, concluded his earthly life. There
are men in this bouse who are perfectly dis
contented. Unhappy in the past, unhappy to
day, to be unhappy forever unless you come
to this gospel well. This satisfies the soul
with a high, deep, ail absorbing and eternal
satisfaction. It comes, and it offers the most
unfortunate man so much of this world as is
best lor him and throws all Heaven into the
bargain. Tlie wealtli of Croesus, and of all tlie
Stewarts, and of all the Hirings, and all the
Rothschilds is only a poor, miserable shilling
compared with the eternal fortunes that Christ
offers you to-day. In the far East there was a
king who used, once a year, to get on a scales,
while on the other side the scales were placed
gold and silver and gems; indeed, enough were
placed there to balance the king. Then, at the
close of tbe Yveigliing, all those treasures were
thrown among the populace. But Christ to
day steps on one side the scales, and on the
other side are all Hie treasures of the universe,
and he says: “All are yours—all height, all
depth, all length, all breadlb, ail eternity, all
are yours.” YVe don’t appreciate the promises
of the gospel. When an aged clergyman was
dying—a man very emineut in the church—a
young theological student stood by bis side,
and tlie aged man looked up and said to him:
“Can’t you give me some comfort iu my dying
hour?” “No,” said the young man, “I can’t
talk to you on this subject; you know all about
it, and have known it so long.” "Well,” said
Hie dying man, “just recite to me some prom
ises.” The young man thought a moment and
lie c inie to this promise: “The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all sin.” And the old
man clapped iiis hands, and in his dying mo
ment said: “Thai’s just the promise I have
been wailing for. ‘The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin.’ ” Oh! the warmth, the
grandeur, the magnificence of tlie promises!
Come, also, to this gospel well, ail ye troub
led. I do not suppose you have escaped. Com
pare your view of this life at fifteen years of
age with what your view is of it at forty, or
s.xly, or seventy. What a great contrast of
opinion! Were you right then, or are you
right now? Two cups placed in your hands, the
one a sweet cup, the other a sour cup—a cup
of joy and a cap of grief. YVhich has been
the nearest to being full, and out of which
liavo you tlie more frequently partaken?
What a different place Greenwood is from
wliat it used to be? Once it was to you a
grand city improvement, and you went out on
tlie pleasure excursion, and you ran laugh
ingly up the mound, and you criticized in a
light way the epitaph B it since the day
when you heard the bell toll at the gate when
you went in with the procession, it is a sad
place, and there is a flood of rushing memo
ries, that suffuse the eye and overmaster the
heart. Oh, you have had trouble, trouble,
trouble. God only knows how much trouble
you tave bad. It is a wonder you have been
able to live through it. It is a wonder your
nervous system has not been shattered, and
your brain bas not reeled. Trouble, trouble.
II 1 could gather all tbe griefs, of all sorts,
from this great audience, and could put them
in one scroll, neither man nor angel could en
dure tlie recitation. Well, wliat do you want?
Would you like to have your property back
again? “No,” you say, as a Christian man,
“I was becoming arrogant, ami I think that is
why tiie Lord took it away. I don’t want to
bavo my property back.” YY’ell, would you
have your departed friends back again? “No,”
you say, “I couldn’t take the responsibility of
bringing them from a tearless realm to a realm
of tears. I couldn’t do it.” Well, tbpn, what
do you warn? A thousand voices in tlie audi
ence cry oil': “Comfort, give us comfort.”
For that reason I have rolled away the stone
from the well’s mouth. Come, all ye wounded
of the Hock, pursued of the wolves, come to
the fountain where the Lord’s sick and bereft
ores have come.
“Ah,” says some one, “you are r.ot old
enough to understand my sorrows. Y’ou have
not been in the world as long as I have, and
you can’t talk to me about my mistorLanes ia
tbe time of old age.”
Well, I may not have lived as long as you,
but [ have been a great deal am mg old ptoplo
and I knoYv boYv they feel about their failing
health, and about their departed friends, and
about the loneliness that sometimes strikes
through their souls. After two persons have
lived together for forty or fifty years, and one
of them is taken away, what desolation! I
shall not forget the cry of the late Rev. Dr.
DeYVitt, of New York, when he stood by the
open grave of bis belovtd wife, aud, after tbe
obsequies had ended, he looked down into the
open place and said: “Farewell, my honored,
faithful and beloved wife. The bond that
Dound us is severed. Thou art in glory, and I
am here on earth. We shall meet again.
F'arewell 1 F'arewell!” To lean on a prop for
fifty years, and then have it break under you!
There were only two years’ difference between
the death of my father and mother. After my
mother's decease, my father used to go around
as though looting for something; he would
often get up from the room, without any seem
ing reason, and go to another room; aud then
be would take his cane and start out and some
one would say: “Father, where are you go
ing?” and he would answer: “I don’t know
exactly where I am going.” Always looking
for something. Though he was a tender
hearted man, I never saw him cry but once,
and that was at the burial of my mother.
After sixty years’ living together it was hard
to part. And there are aged people to-day
who are feeling juft such a pang as that. I
want to tell them there is perfect enchantment
in tbe promises of this Gospe l; and I come to
them add offer them my arm, or I take their
arm and 1 bring them to this Gospel well. Sit
down, father or mother, sit down. See if
there is anything at the well for you. Come,
David, the Psalmist, havo you anything en
couraging to offer them? “Y’es,” says the
psalmist; “They shall still bring forth fruit iu
old age, they shall be fat and flourishing, to
show that the Lord is upright. He is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in me.”
Come, Isaii h, have you anything to say out of
your prophecies or these aged people? “Yes,”
sajs Isaiah; “down ta old age I am with thee,
ami to hoary hairs will I carry thee.” Well,
if the Lord is going to carry you, you ought
not to worry much about your failing eyesight
a id failing limbs Y’ou get a little worried for
s due time you will come to want, do you? Your
children and grandchildren sometimes speak
a little sharp to you because of your ailments.
The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you think
you will come to want? Who do you think
the Lord is? Are his granaries empty? Will
he feed the raven, and the rabbit, and the lion
in the desert and forget you? Why, natural
ists toil us that the purpoise will not forsake its
vennded and sick mate. And do you suppose
tlie Lord of heaven and earth bas not as much
sympathy as the fish of t ie sea? But you say:
“lam so near worn out, and 1 am of no use to
God. any more.” I think the Lord knows
whether you are of my more use or not; if you
were of no more use lie would have taken you
before this. Do you think God has forgotten
you because he lias taken care of you seventy
or eighty years? ila thinks more of you to-dav
than he ever did. because you think more of
him. May tbe God of Abraham, and Isaac,
and Jacob, and Paul the aged, be your God
forever!
But 1 gather all the promises to-day in a
group, and I ask the shepherds to drive their
flocks of lambs aud sheep up to the sparkling
supply. "Behold, happy is the mail whom
God correctetb.” “Though he cause grief, yet
will he have compass iou.” “.Many are the
afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord deliv-
ereth him out of them all.” “Weeping may
endure for a night, but joy coineth in the morn
ing.” I am determined this morning that no
one shall go out of this house uncomforted.
Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul who
seems to hide away from the consolations I am
uttering as a child with a sore hand bides away
from tbe physician lest he touch the wouud too
roughly, and the mother has to go and compel
tbe little patient to come out and see the phy
sician. So I come to your timid and shrinking
soul to-day and compel you to come out in the
presence of the Divine Physician. He will not
hurt you. He has been healing wounds for
many years, and He will give yon genHe and
omnipotent medicament. But people, when
they have trouble, go anywhere rather than to
God. DeQuincy took opium to get rid of his
troubles. Charles Lamb took to punch. The
odore Hook took to something stronger. Ed
win Forrest took to theatrical dissipation. And
men have run all around the earth, hoping in
the quick transit to get away from their mis
fortunes. It has been a dead failure. There
is only one well that can slake the thirst of an
afflicted spirit, and that is the ceep and inex
haustible well of the Gospel.
But gome one says in the audience. “Not
withstanding all you have said this morning, I
I find no alleviation for my troubles." Well,
I am not through yet. I have left the most po
tent consideration for the last. I am going to
soothe you with the thought of Heaven. How
ever talkative we may be, there will come a
time when the stoutest and most emphatic in
terrogation will evoke from us no answer. As
soon as we have closed our lips for the final
silence, no power on earth can break that taci
turnity. But where, O, Christian, will be y our
spirit? In a scene of infinite gladness. The
spring morning of Heaven waving its blossoms
in the bright air. Victors fresh from battle
showing their scars. The train of earthly sor
row struck through with the rainbow of eter
nal joy. in one group God and angels and the
redeemed, Paul and Silas, Latimer aud Ridley,
Isaiah and Jeremiah, Payson and John Milton,
Gabriel and .Michael, Hie archangel. Long line
of choristers reaching across the hills. Seas of
joy dashing to the white beach. Conquerors
inarching from gate to gate. You among them.
Oh! what a great flock of sheep God will
gather around the celestial wed. No stone on
ihe well’s mouth, while the shepherd waters
the sheep. Toere Jacob will recognize Rachael
the shepherd eta. And, standing on one side
of the wail of eternal rapture your children,
and standing on tlie other side of eternal rapt
ure your Christian aucestry, you will be
bounded on all sides by a joy so keen and
grand that no other world has ever been per
mitted to experience it. Out of that one deep
well of Heaven the Shepherd will dip reunion
far tlie bereaved, wealth for tbe poor, health
for the sick, rest for the weary. And then all
tbe flock of the Lord’s sheep will lie down in
green pastures, and world without eml we will
praise the Lord that on this summer Sabbath
morning we were permitted to study tbe story
of Jacob and Rachael the sliiplierdeEh at Hie
Yvell in Mesopotamia.
HailroaDjj
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
EAST TKNNE-tJEE, VHUilxM
ARRIVE.
•Dty Express from Siiv’h
& Fla. No. 14. 7 40 arn
RomeKx press from North
•Uin. & Men*. Ex. from
North.No.il. 4 10 a in
Day Express from North
No. 13 3 20 p m
•Day Ex. from Savannah
and Brunswick, No.
16 7 45 p m
•From New York, Knox
ville ana Alabama points
No.15 10 15 pm
V 'i&flSGui ll it.
DEPART.
•Day Express North, E.
and West No 14,1220 am
•For It ime, Knoxville,
N *ork,Cincinnati aua
Memphis, No. 12.. 7 35 am
♦Fast Express ttouth tut
S’vh&Fla. No. 13. OOJpn.
•For Savan’Ii, Brunswick
ana Jacksonville No 15
5 05 am
•New York Lim. Nortf
N. Y. Phila. etc No. 16
4 30 t.u
CENTRAL it AI CKOxlD.
From Savannah* 7 30 am | To Savannah*.... 6 50 sir,
“ Barn sv’lif 7 45 aai I To Macon*.8 30 am
“ bar’sv’B 0 45 am | T > II ipeville....l2 00 m
“ Macon* 0 CO pm I To Macon* 2 00 pm
“ 11 apevilic f.. 1 40 pm | To Savannah* . 650pm
“ Macon*,.... 1 65 pm I To Barnesviile^.. 3 01 pa.
“ Savannah*._ 530 p | T<» K irnewnh j. 5 25 pm
WESTERN aND ATI
From Chata’ga* 2 23
“ Marietta... 8 00
Home 11 05
Chata’gc
Chata’ga*.. 144 pm
ChataVa*.. 6 35 pn
vN i lC RAILROAD.
I To Chattanooga* 7 50 am
I To Chattanooga* 1 40 pm
ToKoica .... 3 45 pm
I To Marietta.... 4 4.1 pm
To Chattanooga* 5 50 pm
I To Chattanooga* 11 00 pa
ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAILROAD.
From iii’tgo'ery* 6 ;0ain j To Montgomery* I 20 pm
“ M’tgo’ery* 1 25 am I To Montgo’ery* 10 00 pm
*' Law range* 8 45 am | To Lagrange*.... 5 05 pm
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
From Augusta* 6 40 am J To Augusta* 8 00 an
“ Covington* 7 55 am | To Decatur 9 00 am
“ Decatur... 10 15 am I To Clarkston.... 12 10 pm
“ Augusta*.. 1 00pm f To Augusta*... 2 45pm
•* Clarkston.. 220pm j To Covington... C 10pm
“ Augusta 5 45 in i | To Augusta* _ 7 30 pm
RICHMOND AND LMNViLLL RAILROAD
From Lula 8 25 jtn I To Charlotte*... 7 4') am
“ Charlotte* 12 20 pm j To Lula 430pm
44 Charlotte* 9 40 pm | To Charlotte*. ■. 6 <10 fa
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From Bir'g'm*.. 6 50ain To Blrming’oi*. 550 pnr
Tallapoosa 9 no am To Taliapoova.. 5 <*0 pm
** SMrkvIIIt * 5 43 Pra I T - Sfi-rkvillt* . 8 15 am
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T HE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY,
Office General Manager.
Augusta. Ga., May. 8.18t7.
Commencing Sunday, 9ih Instant, the following
passenger schedule will be operated:
Trains run by 901L meridian tiino.
J? AST LINE.
NO. 27 WEST-DAiLY. | NO. 28 EAST-DAILY.
L’ve Augusta 7 45am L’ve Atlanta -.2 45pn
L’ve Washington .7 20am J 44 Gainesville. ..5 55am
44 Athens 7 45am I Ar. Athens 7 2 ,> pn
44 Gainesville. 5 55am I Ar. Washington..? 20pm
Ar. Atlanta 1 OOpra | 44 Augusta..........8 15po
DAY PASSENGER TRAINS.
NO. 2 EAST-DAILY.
L’ve Atlanta ........8 OUam
Ar. Gainesville....8 25pm
44 Athens .... m ....5 35pm
44 Washington....2 20pm
44 Milledgeville...4 13pm
44 Macon 6 00pm
44 Augusta 3 35pm
NO. 1 WEST-DAILY.
L’ve Augusta... .10 45an
44 Macon.......... 7 10am
44 Mi Hedge ville.9 38am
44 Washlngton.il 20an
44 Athens.. . 9 OOau
Ar. Gainesville... 8 25pm
“ Atlanta .5 45pm
NIGHT EXFRESS AND MAIL.
NO. 4 EAST-DAILY. | NO. & WEST-DAILY.
L’ve Atlanta 7 30pm I L’ve Augusta...^...9 40pm
Ar. Augusta 5 00am | Ar. Atlanta 6 4'iam
COVINGTON ACCOMMODATION.
L’ve Atlanta, 6 10pm | Lve Covington 5 40an
Decat ur...........6 46p in j 44 Decatur.7 26an
Ar. Covington....8 30pm | Ar. Atlanta 7 56. m
DECATUR TRAIN.
(Daily except Sunday.)
L’ve Atlanta-.*...9 00am : L’ve Decatur..**. 9 45an
Ar. Decatur. 9 30am ! Ar. Atlanta ,~..10 15am
CLARKSTON TRAIN.
L’ve Atlanta 12 10pm | L’ve Clarkston......1 25pm
44 Decatur ....12 42pm I 44 Decatur .. MM »l 48pm
Ar. Clarkston... 12 57pm ! Ar. Atlanta... MM ...2 20pm
MACON NIGHT EYFRKSS (DAILY).
NO 15- WESTWARD I NO. 16-EAST WARD.
Leave Can ak 12 50 am I Leave Macon...... 6 30 pn
Arrive Macon ... 6 40 am j Arrive Camak....ll on pl
Trains Nos. 2,1, 4 and 3 will, if signaled, stop at tr y
regular schedule Hag station.
No connection for Gainesville on Sundays.
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive passengers t
and from the following stations only;Grovetown,Har
lem, Dearing, Thomson, Norwood. Barnett, Crawford
ville, Union Point, Greeuesboro, Madison, Rutledge
Social Circle. Covington, Conyers, Lit non ia. Stone
Mountain and Decatur.
Train No. 28 will stop at and receive passengers t*
and from the following stations only: Guo veto wn, Har
lem, Dearing, Thomson,Norwood, Barnett,Crawford
viile. Union Point, Grcsnosboro, Madison. Rutledge,
Social Cii do. Covington, Conyers, Lithonia, St j. e
Mountain and Decatur.
No. 28 stops at Harit in for supper.
I. W. GREEN, E. R. DORSEY.
Gen’l Manager. Genl Pa*s. Agent.
JOE W WHITE,
Traveling Passenger Age.it,
Augusta, Ga.
piHDMONT 1IMMIBOUTK.
RICHMOND * PkWVILLB B. B CO.
COVDENSBD SCOTDUI.L IK BrrBCTMAT 29.1W7.
Train* run b? 75th MnrldUn Mm^-Onn hoar faster
than 90th M-ridlsn tlm*.
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Northbound. Nan. No. 53.
Atlanta - -- -- -- -- 7 00 pm 8 40 am
Arrl’e 9W£n loss am
“ Lula 9 37 pm It oo am
i. Toccoa — 10 40 pm 1212 n’n
•• Seneca ilS pm W66pm
Kaaler 19 37 am 210 pm
•• Oreenrllle 2 32 pm
■I spartauhurff - -- -- - 219 am 3 46 pm
Leave Spartan bar*
Arrive
•* salads - -- -- -- -- 4 57am
“ Fiat Rick
•i Hendersonville •’> 03 am
“ Asheville JI®*™
“ Hot Springs 29®*“
Leave Spartanburg 5 ^ ?,?
Arrive Oaffney J!*“ li’k™
•* Gastonia 4 20 am 5 42 pm
“ charlotte 6 25 pm
*• Salisbury - ------ 6 48 am 8 01 pm
« Raleigh 2 lu pm • 6 30 am
“ Goldsboro’ - -- -- - 430 pm ll 20 am
** Greensboro* " “ * * * *5 tj ® P m
** Danville - -- -- -- -10 10 *un 11 29 pm
44 Kood 3 50 pm 615am
44 Lynchburg ••••'* \ ^ 200am
44 Charlottesville - -- - 3 40pm 4 10am
44 Washington - -- -- - 8 23 pm 8 10 am
44 Baltimore - -- -- --11‘25 pm 10 03 am
44 Philadelphia 3 00 am 12 35 pm
44 New York 620am 3 20 pro
DAILY.
Southbound. no. 50. No. 52.
Leave New York - -- -- -- 4 15 am 130 pm
44 Philadelphia ----- 7 20 am 6 57 pm
44 Baltimore ------- 9 45 am 9 42 pm
44 Washington ------ ll 24 am 11 00 pm
44 Charlottesville 3 35 pm 3 00 am
44 Lynchburg ------ 5 50 pm 5 15 am
44 Richmond - -- -- -- 3 00 pm 2 30 am
44 Danville 8 50 pm 8 05 am
44 Greensboro* ------ 10 41 pm 9 48 am
44 Goldsboro’ 12 30 am t 8 10 pm
44 Raleigh 5 30pra tl 00 am
44 Salisbury - * ----- 12 39am 1123am
44 charlotte - -- -- -- 2 25 am 1 00 pra
44 Gastonia - ------- 324 am 1 42 pm
44 Gaffney’s - ------ 4 50 am 2 51 pm
Arrive Spartanburg ------ 5 36 am 3 34 pm
Leave Hot Springs 70opra
•• Asheville 9 49 am
44 Jlbud^rsonAllle - - - - 11 07 pm
44 Flat K;ck 1123 pm
44 Saluda it 53 pm
44 Tyron 12 39 am
Arrive Spartanburg ------ 2 10 am
Leave Spartanburg 5 36 am
* 4 Greenville - -- -- -- 6 50 am 4 18 pra
44 Easley - -- -- -- -- 7 15 am B 14 pm
44 Seneca - -- -- -- -- 8 40 am 6 12 pm
44 Toccoa 46 am 7 08 pm
“ Lula 11 04 am 8 22 pm
44 G lines ville 11 26 am 8 46 pm
Arrive Atlanta -------- 1 20 om 10 40 pm
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ing, Table Decorations and Etiquette, Lunch
eons, Breakfast and Teas, The Art of Enter
taining, Letter Writing and Invitations, Musi
cal “At Homes” and Garden Parties, Travel
ing Manners and Moorning Etiquette, Wedding
and Birthday Anniversaries and Presents, New
Year’s Day Receptions, Important General
Considerations, Brief Hints for every day nse.
This book i3 indispensible to all who wish to
obtain the most enjoyment from daily inter
course with their fellow being9. Handsomely
bound in doth.
PLAIN HOME TALKS
BY DR. E. B. FOOTE.
For three new subscribers we will send
■e copy of Dr. Foote’s I’lain Home Talks
TLANTA & NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE
VICK8HUBQ AND SHKKVXl-UKT, VIA MuNTGOMKBV.
On'v lino nperatlUK double (tally train, and Pull
man Bullet Sio'plnu Care bolween Atlanta and Now
Oi leans witliui’i, cLiause.
Takes i-tf-iet. rtnoov. Apei at, 1
SOUTH HOUND
No. 50.
No. 52.
No. 2
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1 20 pm
10 oo pra
5 05 pn
arrive Fairborn
2 08 p’U
ll 07 pm
6 14 pir
“ Palmetto
2 20 pin
ll 26 pm
6 26 pn
44 Nfwnan
2 47 pm
12 08 am
6 53 pn
44 GrifJtviilo
3 13 pm
12 50 am
7 20 pn
“ LtGnnge
3 52 pm
1 55 ain
8 oo pn
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4 20 pin
2 42 am
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5 04 pm
3 48 am
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11 01 am
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6 oo am
2 00 pm
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2 15 am
1 50 pm
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7 20 pir
NORTH BOUND.
No 51.
No 53.
No I.
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Dally.
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Lv. New ClcaLB
8 10 pm
8 05 am
44 Mobile
l oo am
l 25 pm
44 Peusacola
io 20 pm
1 05 pm
“ Selma
9 45 am
2 35 pm
44 Montgomery
7 45 am
3 10 pm
44 Coliaiibas
8 05 am
Lv. Cpeiika
9 46 am
12 02 am
Ar. Went Point
10 27 am
1 13 am
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io 58 am
1 58 am
7 00 AIL
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ll 23 am
2 50 am
7 33 an
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11 37 a u
3 13 am
750 an
44 New nan
12 03 pm
3 58 am
8 23 an
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4 45 am
8 56 an
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6 35 pm
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THROUGH CAB SERVICE.
Cullman Bullet Sleeping car. No. 50, Atlanta t<
New Orleans.
No. 62, Pullman Buflat Sleeping car. WasMogtoi
to Momgomery, ana Pullman Par!or oar, Montgom
ery to New Orleans.
No. 51, Pullman Buffet Sleeping ears New Orlenot
to Atlanta, and at Atlanta to New York.
No. 63 Pullman Parlor car, NewOrleans to Mont
gomery, and Pullman Buffet Sleeping ear Mont
gomery to Wasulugton.
CECIL OABBKTT, CHAS. H. CROMWELL,
General Manager. Geu. Passenger Agent.
Montgomery, Alabama.
A. J. OEMS, Gen. Agt. O. W. CUKAR8, G. P. A
Atlanta, Georgia.
about the human system, the habits of men
aud women, the cause and prevention of
disease, our sextual relations and social
natures, embracing medical common sense
applied to causes, prevention and cure of
chronic diseases, tlie natural relation of
men and women to each other; society,
love, marriage, parentage, &c., embellished
with 200 illustrations. The hook contains
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gilt
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